Looking for breakthrough ideas for innovation challenges? Try Patsnap Eureka!

Golf putting game with means for automatically monitoring the movement of the ball

a technology for automatically monitoring the movement of balls and golf, which is applied in the field of golf games, can solve the problems of time-consuming, complicated and prone to error or cheating, and the process is made even more complicated

Inactive Publication Date: 2006-05-09
WORLD GOLF SYST
View PDF14 Cites 141 Cited by
  • Summary
  • Abstract
  • Description
  • Claims
  • Application Information

AI Technical Summary

Benefits of technology

[0034]An advantage over the game of U.S. Pat. No. 5,582,550 is that strokes are identified by means of an algorithm employed to monitor motion of the ball rather than only by counting impacts of a club on the ball. This means that undesired movements of the ball can be detected, e.g. if it is knocked by another ball or is accidentally kicked.

Problems solved by technology

This is time consuming, sometimes complicated and prone to error or cheating.
The process is made even more complicated if there is a team or ‘league’ competition involving several members in each team, all with different handicaps.

Method used

the structure of the environmentally friendly knitted fabric provided by the present invention; figure 2 Flow chart of the yarn wrapping machine for environmentally friendly knitted fabrics and storage devices; image 3 Is the parameter map of the yarn covering machine
View more

Image

Smart Image Click on the blue labels to locate them in the text.
Viewing Examples
Smart Image
  • Golf putting game with means for automatically monitoring the movement of the ball
  • Golf putting game with means for automatically monitoring the movement of the ball

Examples

Experimental program
Comparison scheme
Effect test

Embodiment Construction

[0012]Hole 10 comprises a tee area 12 from which golf balls are directed over a playing area of fairway 14 towards a hole 16. “Out of Bounds” areas are indicated at 17 and a hazard area is indicated at 18. The surface material can be artificial grass or real grass or any other suitable material.

[0013]Distributed along the playing area 14 are a plurality of r.f. antennae 20 connected by means of respective detectors or decoders (not shown) to a central computer (indicated schematically at 30) for the whole course. In order to prevent mutual interference between the antennae 20, they may be interrogated (i.e. switched on and off) periodically in such a way that no directly adjacent antennae are interrogated simultaneously. In the area of the hole 16, where ball movements are likely to be shorter, smaller antennae 21 are provided to improve resolution.

[0014]The tee area 12 has its own antenna 22 and the hole 16 has its own antenna 26. The same ball-identifying technology may be used as...

the structure of the environmentally friendly knitted fabric provided by the present invention; figure 2 Flow chart of the yarn wrapping machine for environmentally friendly knitted fabrics and storage devices; image 3 Is the parameter map of the yarn covering machine
Login to View More

PUM

No PUM Login to View More

Abstract

A golf game employing r.f-tag coded golf balls has a playing area with r.f. antennae located underneath to enable the number of strokes taken by a player to be counted. Separate antennae are provided for the tee area and hole, respectively, and the antennae around the hole are smaller to improve resolution. The antennae are connected to a computer which monitors successive moving and stationary phases of a golf ball to count the number of strokes taken by a player.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention relates to a golf game and more particularly to a golf putting game with means for automatically monitoring the movement of the ball.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]A system for identifying golf balls is disclosed in co-pending international patent application WO 99 / 48046.[0003]Scoring at putting is the same as on a golf course. Individual golfers have to record, usually by writing on paper, their scores for each hole. They then have to add up the scores, adjust the total depending on their handicap and work out their final score. This is time consuming, sometimes complicated and prone to error or cheating.[0004]The process is made even more complicated if there is a team or ‘league’ competition involving several members in each team, all with different handicaps. In addition there are various methods to identify winners of competitions such as ‘match play’, ‘stroke play’, ‘skins’, ‘most number of holes in one’ etc.[0005]The present...

Claims

the structure of the environmentally friendly knitted fabric provided by the present invention; figure 2 Flow chart of the yarn wrapping machine for environmentally friendly knitted fabrics and storage devices; image 3 Is the parameter map of the yarn covering machine
Login to View More

Application Information

Patent Timeline
no application Login to View More
IPC IPC(8): A63B67/02A63B43/00A63B57/00A63B71/06
CPCA63B24/0021A63B71/0605A63B71/0669A63B43/00A63B71/0616A63B2243/0029A63B2024/0053A63B2220/13A63B2220/17A63B2220/62A63B2225/54A63B2024/0028A63B2102/32A63B43/008A63B2225/15
Inventor JOLLIFFE, STEVEN P.JOLLIFFE, DAVID V.EMMERSON, GEOFFREY
Owner WORLD GOLF SYST
Who we serve
  • R&D Engineer
  • R&D Manager
  • IP Professional
Why Patsnap Eureka
  • Industry Leading Data Capabilities
  • Powerful AI technology
  • Patent DNA Extraction
Social media
Patsnap Eureka Blog
Learn More
PatSnap group products

Browse by: Latest US Patents, China's latest patents, Technical Efficacy Thesaurus, Application Domain, Technology Topic, Popular Technical Reports.

© 2024 PatSnap. All rights reserved.Legal|Privacy policy|Modern Slavery Act Transparency Statement|Sitemap|About US| Contact US: help@patsnap.com